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THE  ROBERT  E.  COY/AN  COLLECTION 

I'RICSKXTKT)    TO    Till-: 

UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA 


C.  P.  HUNTINGTON 

JUNE,   1897. 

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THE  HEATHEN  CHINEE. 


BY 


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AH   SIN   WAS   HIS    NAME. 


"THE  HEATHEN  CHINEE. 


BY 


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have  been  submitted  to  the  author,  and  have  received  his 
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PLAIN    LANGUAGE    FROM 
TRUTHFUL  JAMES 

TABLE  MOUNTAIN,    1870. 


The  HcatJien  Chinee. 

\*  7  HIGH  I  wish  to  remark,  - 

And  my  language  is  plain, — 
That  for  ways  that  are  dark 

And  for  tricks  that  are  vain, 
The  heathen  Chinee  is  peculiar. 

Which  the  same  I  would  rise  to  explain. 


Ah  Sin  was  his  name ; 

And  I  shall  not  deny 
In  regard  to  the*  same 

What  that  name  might  imply, 
But  his  smile  it  was  pensive  and  childlike, 

As  I  frequent  remarked  to  Bill  Nye. 

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\V11ICH    WE   HAD   A    SMALL   GAME. 


The  Heathen  Chinee. 

It  was  August  the  third  : 

And  quite  soft  was  the  skies  ; 

Which  it  might  be  inferred 
That  Ah  Sin  was  likewise  ; 

Yet  he  played  it  that  day  upon  William 
And  me  in  a  way  I  despise. 


Which  we  had  a  small  game, 

And  Ah  Sin  took  a  hand  : 
It  was  Euchre.     The  same 

He  did  not  understand  ; 
But  he  smiled  as  he  sat  by  the  table, 

With  the  smile  that  was  childlike  and  bland, 
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.L   AT    LAST    HE   TUT    DOWN    A    RIGHT    1!O\VER. 


77/6'  Heathen  Chinee. 

Yet  the  cards  they  were  stocked 

In  a  way  that  I  grieve, 
And  my  feelings  were  shocked 

At  the  state  of  Nye's  sleeve  : 
Which  was  stuffed  full  of  aces  and  bowers, 

And  the  same  with  intent  to  deceive. 


But  the  hands  that  were  played 

By  that  heathen  Chinee, 
And  the  points  that  he  made, 

Were  quite  frightful  to  see,  — 
Till  at  last  he  put  down  a  right  bower, 

Which  the  same  Nye  had  dealt  unto  me. 
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AND    HE   WENT    FOR   THAT    HEATHEN    CHINEF-. 


TJic  Heathen  C/iinee. 

Then  I  looked  up  at  Nye, 

And  he  gazed  upon  me  ; 
And  he  rose  with  a  sigh, 

And  said,  "  Can  this  be  ? 
We  are  ruined  by  Chinese  cheap  labor," 

And  he  went  for  that  heathen  Chinee. 


In  the  scene  that  ensued 

I  did  not  take  a  hand, 
But  the  floor  it  was  strewed 

Like  the  leaves  on  the  strand 
With  the  cards  that  Ah  Sin  had  been  hiding", 

In  the  game  "  he  did  not  understand." 


THE   SCENE  THAT    EXSU1  D. 


77/6'  Heathen  Chinee. 

In  his  sleeves,  which  were  long, 

He  had  twenty-four  packs,  — 
Which  was  coming  it  strong, 

Yet  I  state  but  the  facts  ; 
And  we  found  on  his  nails,  which  were  taper, 

\Vhat  is  frequent  in  tapers,  —  that  's  wax. 


Which  is  why  I  remark, 

And  my  language  is  plain, 
That  for  ways  that  are  dark, 

And  for  tricks  that  are  vain, 
The  heathen  Chinee  is  peculiar,  — 

Which  the  same  I  am  free  to  maintain. 


IN    HIS    SLEEVES    HE   HAD   TWENTY-FOUR   PACKS. 


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